These pictures were taken from my back yard here in south Florida about 100 miles south of the launch. The sky was cloudless.
This is on both my "Travels With Doc T" and my "Doc T Goes Tesla" blogs because - simply - I am a huge geek and a fan of what the visionary Elon Musk is doing to help the world we live in become better. I have been watching launches since the first Mercury capsule carried Alan Shepard into space back in 1961.
Enjoy!
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- SpaceX Falcon Heavy inaugural flight on Feb 6 2018 lifts off over horses oblivious to the event in our back yard.
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- All engines on.
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- All engines powering down.
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- Side boosters flaming out.
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- A bird to the right as the rocket moves out of sight.
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- All engines off.
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- Side booster rockets jettisoned and just behind rocket.
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- Boosters clearly seen shining behind the rocket.
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- Boosters a blurred white spot well behind the rocket whose next burning of the main engine is a faint orange dot.
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- SpaceX Falcon Heavy inaugural flight on Feb 6 2018 now a memory to me and nothing to this grazing horse.
All photos taken with a Nikon D800E, tripod, Nikon 70-200mm 2.8 VR, Nikon 2x teleconverter.
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